Policy paper

UK support to Ukraine: factsheet

Updated 20 December 2024

Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine poses a serious threat to UK prosperity and security. We are proud to be a leading partner in providing vital support to Ukraine.

In total, the UK has committed £12.8 billion for Ukraine:

• £7.8 billion in military support
• £5 billion in non-military support  

Diplomacy

• the UK has supported UNGA resolutions condemning:
  • Russia’s attacks on Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure, including nuclear facilities: 24 July 2024
  • Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: 23 February 2023 and 2 March 2022
  • Russia’s attempted illegal annexation of 4 eastern Ukrainian regions: 12 October 2022
• we regularly use the UN Security Council to condemn Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and reaffirm that Russian disinformation, false accusations and violations of UNSC resolutions will not deter our steadfast support for Ukraine. This included the Foreign Secretary using the UK’s November 2024 Council Presidency to mark 1,000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and reiterate the importance for the world of Putin failing

• we use the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) as a forum to hold Russia accountable:

  • we used the annual OSCE Ministerial Council in December 2024 to call for increased support to Ukraine and we highlighted the threat Russia poses to the OSCE’s founding principles. NATO Allies reiterated the importance of the organisation’s role in any peace process

  • UK representatives sit across the table from the Russian delegation to deliver interventions every week, calling out malign Russian behaviour, combatting disinformation and isolating it diplomatically
  • we have supported the OSCE’s Support Programme for Ukraine financially and highlighted Russian human rights abuses in Ukraine via the OSCE’s formal fact-finding missions (known as the Moscow Mechanism), which have published 4 reports since February 2022
• we use the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to show UK support for the IAEA’s efforts towards nuclear safety in Ukraine, particularly at ZNPP (Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant). We hold Russia directly accountable for the nuclear safety and security challenges Ukraine now faces, including from Russia’s missile strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid

Military

• the UK has provided £7.8 billion in military support since the invasion, and will provide £3 billion in military support for 2024 to 2025

• we will sustain £3 billion a year in military aid until 2030 to 2031 and for as long as it takes (announced on 10 July 2024)

• we will contribute £2.26 billion to the G7 ‘Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration’ Loans for Ukraine, to be repaid using profits generated by seized Russian assets. HM Government has laid legislation to facilitate the funds’ disbursement (6 November)

• we have sent around 400 different capabilities to Ukraine, with a new £225 million package including drones, boats and munitions announced on 19 December 2024, 650 lightweight multirole missiles announced on 6 September 2024 and a package of military equipment announced on 7 July 2024

• £7.5 million of funding for new attack and surveillance drones invested by the UK and Latvia-led drone coalition (19 November 2024)

• a new UK-Ukraine Defence Industrial Support Treaty  will expand the range of military equipment that can be funded through £3.5 billion of UK Export Finance-guaranteed loans (signed on 19 July 2024)

• we have trained over 51,000 Ukrainian personnel in the UK under Operation INTERFLEX and the training scheme has been extended until at least the end of 2025

• we administer the International Fund for Ukraine to procure military equipment: over £1.3 billion has been pledged to the International Fund for Ukraine to date, including for a new £300 million ammunition order (announced on 10 July 2024)

Non-military

• the UK’s non-military commitments to Ukraine since the start of the invasion come to £5 billion. This includes:
  • £4.1 billion in fiscal support through World Bank loan guarantees to bolster Ukraine’s economic stability and support vital public services. This includes a multi-year commitment announced at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in 2023
  • £977 million committed in bilateral assistance to date. We will provide £282 million in bilateral assistance for 2024 to 2025, to fund humanitarian, energy, stabilisation, reform, recovery and reconstruction programmes

Humanitarian

• the UK is providing at least £120 million in humanitarian assistance through to the end of financial year 2024 to 2025, bringing our total humanitarian contribution to £477 million for Ukraine and the region since the start of the full-scale invasion

• £15 million, delivered through UNHCR and UNICEF, will support those most in need as temperatures in Ukraine plummet (announced on 17 December 2024)

• we have provided £8.6 million to HALO Trust for demining. Our demining efforts supported the clearance of over 350,000 square metres of land (May 2022 to September 2024)

Recovery and reconstruction

• the UK co-hosted the London Ukraine Recovery Conference in 2023, raising over $60 billion

• war risk insurance is being provided through the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), part of the World Bank group, and through the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to boost inward investment into Ukraine

• to date, UK Export Finance has issued over £500 million in support of critical projects in Ukraine – covering reconstruction, energy and defence

• through our development finance institution, British International Investment (BII), we are working in partnership with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to make trade finance available to support critical imports and exports to and from Ukraine. BII intend to provide up to £30 million in finance  (11 September 2024)

• our Good Governance Fund for Ukraine, a £38 million 3-year technical assistance programme, counters corruption and supports reform

Energy

• overall, the UK has committed over £390 million for energy security and resilience in Ukraine through grant, in-kind support and loan guarantees

• £20 million to support emergency energy needs, as well as support for vital repairs and providing further power generation (17 December 2024)

• this builds on the £20 million to support essential repairs and protection to the power network (announced 11 September 2024)

• this takes our level of emergency support to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund to £84 million

• UK Export Finance has concluded negotiations to provide £181 million of support to pay Urenco to supply enriched uranium to Ukraine (18 July 2024)

• we have committed £16 million to invest to support UK and Ukrainian innovators to help rebuild a greener and more resilient energy grid through UK’s Innovate Ukraine Green Energy Competition

• the UK is also supporting the supply of vital fuel to Ukraine’s nuclear power plants to help power Ukraine and maintain its independence from Russian fuel

Sanctions

• the UK has sanctioned over 2,100 individuals and entities, 1,900 of which have been sanctioned since Russia’s full-scale invasion

• UK, US and EU sanctions have deprived Russia of over $400 billion in revenue since February 2022, equivalent to 4 more years of funding for the invasion

• since the imposition of the Oil Price Cap, data from the Russian Ministry of Finance showed a 30% reduction in tax revenues from oil in 2023, compared to the year before

• the IMF forecast that Russia’s economy will fall further behind. Although growth is estimated at 3.6% in 2024, it is expected to fall to 1.3% in 2025. Interest rates are at 21%, there is runaway inflation and the rouble has plummeted

• this government has imposed sanctions against:

  • over 100 ships. On 17 December 2024, we sanctioned 20 more shadow fleet tankers, and 2 of the entities behind the shadow fleet who are responsible for this reckless trade

  • 10 perpetrators of the Russian state’s forcible deportation and attempted indoctrination of Ukrainian children (19 November)

  • Russia’s military industrial complex and private military security groups – 56 new sanctions, largest UK package since May 2023 (7 November)

War crimes and justice

• the UK has given £6.2 million to support Ukraine’s domestic war crimes investigations

• we have also given an additional £2.3 million to the International Criminal Court

• the UK is an active member of the ‘core group’ scoping options for achieving accountability for the crime of aggression

• we are a founding member of the International Register of Damage to support claims by Ukrainians who have suffered losses as a result of the war

Trade

• the UK-Ukraine Digital Trade Agreement entered into force facilitating duty-free digital content trade (1 September 2024)

• the UK-Ukraine TechBridge delivers projects in mutual trade, investment, innovation research and digital skills development

• our City-Ukraine Hub leverages UK expertise to deliver capacity building projects

• our UK-Ukraine Business Bridge connects UK and Ukrainian businesses

• our military aid and insurance through the UK-developed Unity facility has supported the Black Sea maritime corridor and enabled Ukraine to export their full harvest this year – crucial for global food security and Ukraine’s economy

• UK-Ukraine Political, Free Trade and Strategic Partnership Agreement enables UK businesses to benefit from tariff free trade on all goods until 31 March 2029 (tariffs on eggs and poultry removed until 31 March 2026) (8 February 2024)

For further information visit the Department for Business and Trade’s Ukraine page.

Ukrainians in the UK

• 218,600 Ukrainians have arrived in the UK, including 159,800 through Homes for Ukraine (as of 16 December 2024)

• our new Ukraine Permission Extension (UPE) scheme will open on 4 February 2025 (announced 26 November). UPE will provide an additional 18 months permission and access to the same rights and entitlements as the Ukraine schemes

• we continue to support the Ukrainian diaspora to help them access accommodation and employment, learn English and new skills, and live independently in the UK

Last updated: 19 December 2024

Contact: DLUkraineCampaignJointUnitParliamentary@fcdo.gov.uk